Recent Posts Tagged With 'financial crisis'

• Banks Fail, Paulson Wins

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 10:00 in finance, short, corporate, financial crisis, hedge fund manager, john paulson

  John Paulson profited more than anyone else (that we know of) during the depression/recession/crash of 2008.  He is a hedge fund manager.   Before we were talking about $7 billion in bailout funds, he had already cashed in a $3.7 billion payday in...

• Semyon Dukach, MIT Blackjack Team: On the Financial Industry

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 09:07 in finance, betting, Government, Blackjack, 21, mit, financial crisis, martingale, semyon dukach, bringing dwon the house

  Semyon Dukach has posted on his site, Semyon.com a comparison of the modern financial industry instruments to generate revenue with the strategies used in blackjack in The real cause of the financial crisis.  Specifically he focuses on the Martingal...

• Bailout Total = $4.28 trillion

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 15:52 in loan, finance, federal reserve, cnbc, bailout, financial crisis, $700 billion bailout, 700 billion, emergency economic stabilization act, total cost, treasury asset relief program

  CNBC has been keeping track of the total dollars spent so far on the Financial Crisis that we are seeing. That total is, $4.28 trillion.   The post, Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions, says “… that number is more than what wa...